Got a Coleman stove - just don't got no fuel. Got a fireplace that doesn't really heat the house up. Got 2 wood stove hook-ups and no wood stove. If my power goes out for more than a day, I'm screwed.

Gnu, thanks. It doesn't seem like anything's actually coming in, but it hasn't been warm enough to melt anything recently. I had a look yesterday and it seems the ice is on top of a layer of snow (I figure the sun just melted the surface - it's on the south side of the house) with more snow on top of that. A bunch of it has come off. I figure it get's warmish, breaks and slides off the snow. It doesn't seem like the ice is caused by the stuff freezing as it tries to run off. So maybe it's not a proper ice dam.

I believe the ventilation is good. I bought calcium chloride, I'm pretty sure there's some panty hose around here, but there's no way I'm getting a ladder up to the roof on that side of the house (there's a wicked slope down from the house), and I'm not walking around up there at the present time. Thought about opening a window and swinging stuff up on a cord.

I believe they made February with only 28 days because that's about all we could take... and even that's stretching it.